Mother Antonia: Reading S. Teresa Toomey’s Chapters for a History of the College of St. Catherine St. Paul Minnesota. She discusses S. Antonia’s encouragement of outdoor pageants. “Perhaps she was moved thereto by the widely acclaimed annual pageants at Carleton College.” Some of these pageants were “not very enlightening as to their meaning.” Everything Looks...
Tag: Everything Looks Like A Face
A work of music-theatre in collaboration with composer Elizabeth Alexander.
forging ahead
Everything Looks Like A Face: worked on getting stuff into Draft, the collaboration tool we are using. Revised; forged ahead a little bit. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy. Considered titling this post “f'(x) > 0 (but only just)”.
more tug-of-war
Everything Looks Like A Face: Rewrote the tug-of-war scene, drafted the talking-to-the-backs scene. Had a good meeting with Elizabeth; got to hear some of the tunes she is exploring.
unspeakable!
Mother Antonia: Taking more notes from Ryan & Wolkerstorfer. When the first boarders arrived at the college, there weren’t enough sheets for all their beds, so a group of sisters sat up all night sewing sheets out of unbleached muslin. “Unbleached, oh, it was unspeakable!” I’m now thinking perhaps the monologue should begin not with...
relishing
Everything Looks Like a Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: finished organizing notes from my first trip to the CSJ archives. Started taking notes from Rosalie Ryan & John Christine Wolkerstorfer’s More Than A Dream: Eighty-five years at the College of St. Catherine. This-here was my first inkling of what to expect from M....
triangulating
Everything Looks Like a Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth about the way the characters speak.
waffling
Everything Looks Like a Face: Wrote some dialogue. Erased some dialogue. Wrote some more. Hmmm.
tug of war, critical numbers
Everything Looks Like a Face: Wrote dialogue. Two characters have a tug of war; a third is being the one being tugged. Erika: Watched a Khan Academy video on Finding Critical Numbers.
narrating, differentiating
Everything Looks Like a Face: started writing a scene. Almost entirely stage directions, so far. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy.
click!
Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth about the characters and their jobs. One of them, we both feel strongly, is a glazier. It’s always exciting when something really clicks. Mother Antonia: Worked more on organizing notes. Did not know until starting this project that Percy Grainger knew some of the CSC faculty...